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Excerpt of an article by Ariana Eunjung Cha, published in the The Washington Post . A year ago, Yuntao Wu was on a roll. The George Mason University researcher had just published a study hailed by the scientific press as ’groundbreaking’ that reveals why HIV targets only a specific kind of T-cell and, separately, found that a compound in soybeans seemed to have promise for inhibiting infection. These days, Wu ’ one of thousands of scientists who lost his grant in the wake of sequester cuts ’ says he spends much of his time hunched over a desk asking various people and organizations for money. The deep across-the-board cuts in government spending that took effect March 1 have sent...

Excerpt of an article by Ariana Eunjung Cha, published in the The Washington Post . A year ago, Yuntao Wu was on a roll. The George Mason University researcher had just published a study hailed by the scientific press as ’groundbreaking’ that reveals why HIV targets only a specific kind of T-cell and, separately, found that a compound in soybeans seemed to have promise for inhibiting infection. These days, Wu ’ one of thousands of scientists who lost his grant in the wake of sequester cuts ’ says he spends much of his time hunched over a desk asking various people and organizations for money. The deep across-the-board cuts in government spending that took effect March 1 have sent...

For the college football fans among us, today is like a second Christmas: The season begins tonight. South Carolina’s visit to upstart Vanderbilt is the most notable game on the schedule, as South Carolina is the only ranked team in action tonight. And so, for the third straight year, we’re happy to present our own little mashup of college football and medical research. It would be pretty easy to get on a roll about who’s overrated and underrated and what players to watch out for ’ a temptation we’ve had to force ourselves to stay away from for the past two years . We know our audience: researchers and those who care about research. So, just as we’ve done in the links above, we present...